Friday, May 25, 2018

When will US apologize to Russia and reinstate 60 Russian diplomats it kicked out based on pathetic UK spy poisoning story which was only sold to please US profiteers seeking US taxpayer funded unwinnable war with Russia?

"Both
Sergei and Yulia Skripal, alleged victims of a poisoning by highly
trained assassins using the deadliest nerve agent ever created,are
doing fine. But you’re still supposed to fear and hate Russia. Just
don’t think too hard about it or remember too much....

Oh,
and [Boris] Johnson’s claim that the Porton Down laboratory had assured him
“There’s no doubt” that Russia was behind the poisoning? Turns out that was just a bald-faced lie; Porton Down said no such thing and it was never its job to make such an assessment. Johnson lied, and both the Foreign Office and British mainstream media attempted to cover it up;
tweets were deleted, transcripts were re-written, and narratives were
given a good spin of historic revisionism by asserting that the UK
government’s unequivocal insistence that the Kremlin poisoned the
Skripals had been merely a “suggestion”."
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Russia vowed to retaliate to the "provocative gesture". Russia
denies any role in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter,
Yulia, in Salisbury, southern England. The pair remain in a critical but
stable condition in hospital.

EU leaders agreed last week it was highly likely Russia was behind the nerve-agent poisoning.

Mrs
May said: "President Putin's regime is carrying out acts of aggression
against our shared values and interests within our continent and beyond.

"And as a sovereign European democracy, the United Kingdom will
stand shoulder to shoulder with the EU and with Nato to face down these
threats together."

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also praised the "extraordinary international response" by the UK's allies.

The Russian foreign ministry said the moves demonstrated a continuation of a "confrontational path".

"It
goes without saying that this unfriendly act by this group of countries
will not go without notice and we will react to it," its statement
said."

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Remarkable show of solidarity

By Jonathan Marcus, BBC diplomatic correspondent

This is building into the most serious diplomatic crisis between Russia and the West since Moscow's seizure of Crimea.

Whatever
the denials, Britain's allies have clearly accepted its view that the
use of a military grade nerve agent in Salisbury was "highly likely" the
work of the Russian state.

The collective expulsions from the US
and EU member states is a remarkable show of solidarity with Britain,
even more so because it comes at a time when UK-EU relations are
strained due to the Brexit negotiations.

Donald Tusk's note that there could be "additional measures" is a signal to Moscow as it considers how it will respond.

It
is a significant diplomatic victory for Prime Minister Theresa May -
concerted action has now followed the strong rhetorical support from its
allies. It also marks a significant toughening of the Trump
administration's stance towards Moscow.

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Who is expelling diplomats?

The UK announced it was expelling 23 Russian diplomats earlier this month.

Various countries announced they were making the same move in solidarity on Monday. These are:

[On December 29] In 2016 [on his way out the door after Trump's election and 3 weeks before Obama would leave office],the Obama administration expelled 35 Russian diplomats in
response to the alleged hacking of the US Democratic Party and Hillary
Clinton campaign during the 2016 presidential election, accusations
Moscow denied. [The US has never supplied evidence that "hacking" took place or that Russia was involved.The US never even examined servers belonging to either the DNC or Hillary campaign.]

Senior US officials told the Associated Press that
Russia had an estimated 100 intelligence officials at its diplomatic
posts in the US, suggesting that dozens will still be left in the
country.

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